Madagascar; or, Robert Drury's journal
Subtitle: during fifteen years' captivity on that island
By: and a further description of Madagascar by the Abbé Alexis Rochon ; edited, with an introd. and notes, by Pasfield Oliver.
Contributors: Oliver, Samuel Pasfield, 1838-1907.; Rochon, Alexis, 1741-1817.
Series: The Adventure series ; v.2
Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
Published: 1897
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Malagasy language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Madagascar -- Description and travel.
Genres: Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Notes: Contains facsimile of t.p. of 1st ed., London, 1729.

Conjectured to have been edited by Defoe. cf. Dict. Nat. Biog.

"It is clearly a work of fiction by Defoe."--Moore, J.R. Defoe's sources for Robert Drury's journal. Bloomington, Ind. [1943] p.8.

"A vocabulary of the Madagascar language". p. 319-335.

"An account of the island of Madagascar. By the Abbé Rochon (abridged from the English version of 1792)": p. [351]-398.

Includes index.